OnOne Software Releases Nikon Version of ‘DSLR Camera Remote’ for iPhone (or iPod Touch)
The wait is over! After releasing the Canon version of their iPhone remote control app earlier this year, now OnOne Software has released a Nikon version of their app which lets you control your Nikon DSLR wirelessly from your iPhone or iPod Touch.
I haven’t given it a studio test yet (that’s coming next week), but basically what this puppy does is let you take control over your tethered Nikon DSLR, letting you change your f/stop, shutter speed—-you can even use LiveView to see what you’re camera’s seeing (right from your iPhone)—-and then use it actually take the photo wirelessly (think about using this when you’re shooting the kids!).
Anyway, you just gotta love that, technology like this for both Nikon and Canon shooters, is starting to appear. It’s $19.99 and you can buy it from the iTunes Store. Way to go OnOne!!!! Here’s a link with more details.
I downloaded the OnOne app this weekend and started shooting with it and it just flat out kicks butt. I will do a review of it sometime this week over on my blog. If you have ever thought of shooting tethered and you’re an iPhone or iTouch owner, you will certainly want to use this app. And you just can’t beat the $19.99 price tag.
What are you shooting tethered to… a computer? My D300 works with a cable release but you need other equipment to buy a non nikon remote release. What is the Itouch shooting at to have it trigger. I think I am missing something.
The OnOne software on the iPhone/Touch talks to OnOne software on the computer over WiFi. The computer then controls the camera over the tethered USB cable.
I am still confused. OnOne shows a demo video with a camera attached to the top of a basketball goal and shooting shot. They do show the setup and being setup with a netbook.
They give the impression you can shoot from this location and not have the laptop connected to the camera….
Unless I am missing something, this is so misleading advertising.
Ken
thanks Nathan…
A wedding photog friend wanted to see if he can use it during a wedding but wasnt under the impression that a computer had to be attached.
If you look on the main page for the prodiuct, everything is clearly laid out…
[quote]
Here’s what you need:
Your Canon EOS DSLR or Nikon DSLR camera
Your Apple iPhone or iPod Touch
A WiFi enabled computer (no active internet connection required)
DSLR Camera Remote Server software (free download)
DSLR Camera Remote Professional OR DSLR Camera Remote Lite software for iPhone/iPod Touch, available from the Apple iTunes Store.
[end quote]
I guess if you only looked at the photos on the blog you might not be able to tell, but a laptop – or even a small net book – is required.
Photographers need to get a new mindset for the DSLR Camera Remote. Yes, you need to tether it to your computer. But the laptop can work without a wi-fi connected. When you shoot it can make a copy of the image on your hard drive. So don’t get too wound up about the laptop.
What the remote gives you is a look at the images you are shooting right on your iPod touch. You fire the camera and there is your image. If you are working alone you don’t need to go to the camera to see the image – it’s in your hand. The range is amazing. I have previewed my camera and fired it and saw the image immediately from the other side of the house.
Move a light, fire, see the result as the camera saw it. Amazing. And you are still at the light. This will save product photographers an enormous amount of time each week.
You can change exposure color balance, etc. from the iPod touch or iPhone.
If you shoot weddings you can leave the camera on a tripod in front of the couple and fire it from your seat – and see your results from your seat. No more running to try and catch their antics.
It really is a new mindset for how you will use it!
When I read de title I was like WOW, goodbye laptop!… then reading…you still need a computer conected to the camera… so… baah….
interesting, but no a must have.
Me and one of the other sales guys at the camera store played with it Friday, and he is now ticked because he just got Camera Control from Nikon. Best $20 ever spent. Worked well, fast, and having LV on the phone is freakin sweet! And touch focus is cool. my only complaint…either i can’t find it or you have to do it on camera, but you cannot change exposure modes from the phone. Kinda strange, but still 5-stars!!!
It is a great piece of App. I just downloaded it this weekend and used it with Canon 5D and Nikon D90. No problems and it was awesome! Cool app and Liveview function for D90 is great!
Very cool app – I downloaded it last week and have been playing around with it a fair bit. I am using it in a class tomorrow to illustrate the effect of apeature and shutter speed on exposure. Should be pretty cool to fire away from the front of the class and have the results displayed on the big screen right away. I wonder if this will affect the price (rediculous IMHO) of camera control ?
Ok – maybe I just don’t get this, but if you have to have the camera tethered (via a wire) to a computer, why don’t you just control/shoot off the computer itself?
Now a separate little dongle that attached to the camera, which then wirelessly connected to the ipod/iphone would be cool. But with the computer in the middle, what’s the point of this app? Seems like a solution in search of a problem.
Great! I knew you’d get to this, Scott. Look forward to the studio test and how you integrate it with Lightroom.
The problem with controlling everything from the computer is that you’ll need to run back to the computer to check your changes in posing, framing, lighting etc., rather than simply check the result right where you stand and make the necessary changes immediately. I don’t have an iPhone but I can clearly see the benefit from having this application.
Yet another reason to get a I phone. Im stuck on Verizon. That is pretty cool.
@Ken – in the video you are referring to, we have a long USB cable connecting the camera to the Acer Netbook that is stashed in a backpack hanging off of the basketball pole.
@Anders & @Mark E – this app also works on the iPod Touch so you don’t have to switch from Verizion (or others) to use this.
Thanks,
Mike from onOne
Mike,
Thank you for the clarity.
I would suggest you redo the demo. In my mind the video gives the wrong impression. I am not saying no one will hang a net book or laptop off a basketball goal.
I was thinking of more a wedding or party, but with a netbook hanging around I think a pocket wizard, or my Nikon remote will do the trick with out all the gismo stuff on your app. I must say I like it, but has so many limitations (wireless).
As a sidebar, how long of a tethered cable can one buy and where.
Ken
A few clarifications, if I might. The iPhone app. is $19.95. You then download a separate app. from OnOne website to your computer, which the iPhone interacts with. There are a few other things that can be done, remotely, that are pretty cool. You can control the camera for multiple exposures for HDR or time lapse shooting. I have not yet done it, but I can forsee doing multiple flash exposures while moving the flash around when you don’t happen to have an assistant. I can see lots of potential, although I would be surprised if they don’t soon have upgrades.
Hmm says I need to put my camera in continuous shooting mode to enable bursts, but throwing the switch on the front results in the same error. Can you not mix bursts plus live view? This is with a D300 tethered to a MBP. Pretty neat app otherwise. Gonna try mixing in some CLS next.
Also, is it not possible to save to BOTH the on board compact flash as well as the controlling computer?
Finally, it doesn’t seem like the server software has any flexibility on naming the files as they come in to the machine. I understand you can set Lr to automatically fetch them and rename on the fly, but I’d really like to give some simple parameters for the files at capture time.
OK, CLS with this is too much fun if they could just bring CLS adjustments into the iphone app itself that would be killer.
Had some fun handholding a few flashes around Boba Fett and trying some different light layouts while popping the camera with the iphone. Neat stuff:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kadath/sets/72157622077484871/
To Dave Cross or Mike Wong:
I was under the impression that the computer has to have an Active internet connection and that both the computer and iPhone are on the same wifi network.
Some great pictures.
Love the one with the pilot walking out of the building….
I expect the developers will use bluetooth connection between iPhone and laptop in future versions. It will allow to work in the field without WiFi routers.
You don’t need a WiFi router, you just need wifi ability on your computer. I just created a new computer-to-computer network, put on a password, then had my iphone connect to that network. You can be in a field, no where near an internet connection. You only need your camera tethered to the computer, which can be limiting, but not a problem for me! I have a 15′ cord and can move my camera around on the tripod as needed. If my camera had Live View, it would be so much better, but I’ve been using it to test my lighting! I don’t need my daughters to model for me anymore, I can shoot, see the image, make adjustments w/out ever leaving my spot in front of the camera! It also helps me at photo sessions w/out an assistant. I can set up the shot, and walk over to the side and hold my own reflector and shoot! Now, I do accidentally hit the fire button more than I’d like when doing that, but it’s been so handy!! I’d like the next version to show the histogram, but otherwise, I think it rocks!!